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[daisychainmods]

Characters: EVERY CHARACTER in Manhattan!
Content: It's time to say goodbye...
Location: The DRT Room on board the Ultimatum.
Time of day: The remainder of time
Warnings: Expect some sadness, tears and hopeful promises...
Notes: This thread will be party-style. You are free to make your own subthreads, and know that you can tag into ANY SUBTHREAD

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[inmyothertights]

Billy tugged at his own cape a little - he'd fallen asleep in it (to Teddy's tired amusement) the night before and it wasn't quite hanging right around his shoulders now. It was newer and brighter and less tattered than the one that Temeraire wore around his neck, but unmistakably, and against all logic, the same one: he'd conjured it up from nowhere when he'd flown out to fight the day before, magic pulsing through him like it hadn't done for months. The insane rush of it had subsided now, partially through his having gotten used to it again after a few days and partially because he was exhausted now.

But they were going home. He'd get to see his family again (he found himself wondering, for the first time, whether or not he'd grown in the last few months - would they notice? should he tell them?) - he and the rest of them would have to tell Eli and Cassie and Jonas what had happened, and they could all walk together through a Central Park that wasn't a barren, monster-riddled death trap. He was looking forward to it possibly more than he'd ever been looking forward to anything in his entire life, except perhaps for those few days a year and a half ago after Nate had announced that their uniforms would be ready within a week.

But ... there was a price, of course. He'd met people here who he was pretty sure he was never, ever going to get to see again.

And Temeraire was the one he was going to miss the most. There wasn't the slightest doubt in Billy's mind about it when he spotted the dragon - almost the first thing he did spot when he made his way into the DRT room; Temeraire was impossible to miss, and Billy headed straight for him, ducking around other people and stopping occasionally to say goodbye to the ones he knew.

"Temeraire," he said a little breathlessly, unable to keep himself from grinning, despite the fact that he was here to say goodbye. Temeraire must be looking forward to it, too, right? He'd get to see Laurence again. But ...